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Fri Nov 30 17:27:30 EST 2012

ABC's South-East Asia correspondent Zoe Daniel tweeted this photo of a woman at the scene of anti-government demonstrations in Bangkok on November 24, 2012. Thai police fired tear gas at the protesters as tensions flared.

Twitter: @Seacorro

A protester cheers as items ransacked from an office of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party burn in Alexandria on November 23, 2012. Thousands took to the streets in Cairo and Alexandria to protest Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's move to grant himself sweeping powers.

Reuters

Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators march towards Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square during a protest against Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi's power grab, on November 23, 2012. Mr Morsi has assumed temporary sweeping powers that supporters say will cut back a turbulent and seemingly endless transition to democracy, but outraged critics say he has now become a dictator.

AFP: Gianluigi Guercia

Protesters join a pro-Palestine rally at Town Hall in Sydney, November 24, 2012. The rally marched from Town Hall to Martin Place outside the US consulate.

AAP: Dean Lewins

A firefighter tries to control a fire that killed over 100 people at a garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, on November 24 2012.

Diana Mallows, 90, is rescued by the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service after being stranded due to flooding at her home for four days, at North Curry near Taunton, south-west England, November 24, 2012.

Reuters: Luke MacGregor

Prime Minister Julia Gillard fronts a Canberra press conference on November 26, 2012. Prime Minister Gillard delivered her strongest defence yet against suggestions she was involved in any wrongdoing in relation to a union slush fund nearly two decades ago.

AAP: Alan Porritt

Greens Leader Christine Milne (left) sits next to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott at a White Ribbon event in Canberra on November 26, 2012.

AAP: Lukas Coch

Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop holds up a document while speaking in Question Time on November 26, 2012 in Parliament House, Canberra.

AAP: Lukas Coch

Denise (foreground) and Bruce Morcombe arrive at the Brisbane Magistrates Court for the committal hearing of charges against Brett Cowan, the man accused of the abduction and murder of their son, Daniel, November 26, 2012. Read the story

ABC News: Francene Norton

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman apologises to people affected by the past government policy of forced adoptions, in Parliament in Brisbane on November 27, 2012. The practice was widespread in Australia from the 1950s to the 1970s.

AAP: Dan Peled

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott (left) talks to deputy leader Julie Bishop at a joint party-room meeting on November 27, 2012. Canberra politicians are heading into the last sitting week of the year.

AAP: Alan Porritt

An anti-government protester throws a tear gas canister back during clashes with riot police at Tahrir Square in Cairo November 27, 2012.

Reuters: Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Director Peter Jackson emerges from from a Hobbit house before giving a speech at the premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, at Embassy Theatre, in Wellington, New Zealand, November 28, 2012.

Getty: Hagen Hopkins

Firemen in a rescue dinghy pass a van driving along a flooded street on the outskirts of Gloucester, western England, on November 27, 2012.

Reuters: Andrew Winning

Mining magnate Clive Palmer addresses the media in Brisbane on November 29, 2012. The billionaire accused the Queensland Government of planning to put him in jail.

AAP: Dan Peled

Bradley Manning is escorted from his hearing in Fort Meade, Maryland, on November 27, 2012. Manning is charged with aiding the enemy and wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet.

AFP: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Lasha Pataraia pulls an eight-ton truck with his ear on his way to setting a new world record in the Georgian city of Rustavi on November 29, 2012. The 32-year-old pulled the truck for 21.5 metres.

AFP: Vano Shlamov

People wave Palestinian flags during a rally in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, supporting the resolution that would change the Palestinian Authority's United Nations observer status from 'entity' to 'non-member state', November 29, 2012. Read the story

Reuters: Marko Djurica

LtoR Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama talk in the Oval Office following their lunch on November 29, 2012. Read the story

The White House: Pete Souza

Palestinians celebrate in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 29, 2012, after the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognise Palestine as a non-member state. Read the story

AFP: Abbas Momani

Police arrest a man on November 30, 2012, in relation to a carpark shooting in Sydney earlier in November.

NSW Police

The Mufti of Egypt, Nasr Farid Wasel, attends the final vote on a draft new Egyptian constitution at the Shura Council in Cairo on November 29, 2012. An Islamist-led assembly finalised a new Egyptian constitution aimed at transforming the country and paving the way for an end to a crisis that erupted when President Mohamed Morsi gave himself sweeping new powers.

Reuters: Mohamed Abd El Ghany

A radar image of Mercury's north polar region, combined with a mosaic of images of the same region taken by the NASA spacecraft MESSENGER, shows areas that are thought to contain ice. The image was released by NASA on November 29, 2012. Since their discovery in 1992, these polar deposits have been hypothesised to consist of water ice trapped in permanently shadowed areas near Mercury's north and south pole.

NASA

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